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Sept. 9, 2005 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 9, 2005, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 247 Podcast.
And greetings to you, thrill seekers and conversationalists, eager beavers all across the fruited plain.
It's time for the Rush Limbaugh program right here on the EIB network.
It is Friday.
Let's go.
Live from the Southern Command in Sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
And you know the rules for Open Line Friday.
Pretty much we open it up to you.
And uh whatever you want to discuss, says you know, Monday through Thursday, this is a program that is uh devoted exclusively to things that interest me.
But I am well aware that there may be those rare occasions where the things that interest me are of no interest to you.
And in fact, some people have been saying, can we get off of the hurricane?
There have to be other things going on.
Well, if that's you.
If you want to get off of the hurricane and it's aftermath, this is the day.
Uh telephone number is 800-282-2882.
The email address is Rush at EIB net.com.
Did anybody watch the pregame show, the uh ABC pregame show prior to good Brian Brian did?
I I did not watch it.
Uh the National Football League to me is football.
It's not rappers and Rolling Stones and creaky aging Carlos Santana.
Uh and uh and the rest of uh of these people.
So but I I got a story here, Brian at Boston Globe today.
Uh from a guy named Steve Morse.
Uh uh writes a piece here on how the uh NFL kickoff show falls short at Gillette Stadium.
He was at the stadium watching this, and it wasn't a big deal.
A lot of it was on tape.
Some of the rappers were hidden under football helmets, some of them got center stage, or some of the performers.
But there's this interesting paragraph about Kanye West.
It was disconcerting to hear Kanye West's name booed loudly by Patriots fans who evidently didn't appreciate his nationally televised comment the other night on a hurricane Katrina benefit that President Bush doesn't care about black people.
The booze were thunderous and lasted for much of his number.
Did you see this, Brian?
They oh okay, so guess what?
That's what I thought.
They cut away to LA where he was, so you didn't hear the stadium crowd when he booed.
When he was booed.
So people watching ABC last night, watching this this pregame show, never saw the Gillette Stadium crowd react to Kanye West.
And so we don't have any audio of this because there is no audio.
Well, we we don't have any audio from ABC from television because they weren't there.
But apparently, so they beamed him on the screen, apparently, their video tron, jumbotron, whatever you call these things now at these uh stadiums, and the fans apparently in Boston went nuts, and this is Boston.
This is Boston.
They booed thunderously, and it lasted for much of his number.
Now, it it tells me that uh I I I've always I've always been consistent here in in uh suggesting here that the leftover plays its hand, even when they have a winning one.
Even when even when they're close to having a winning hand, they overplay it.
And I think this is a and a cause of backlash, and this is sort of a a mini example of it, uh, although nobody knows it.
Um other than if if we hadn't read the Boston Globe today, we wouldn't know that this had happened.
Because it didn't happen on national TV.
So if it didn't happen on TV, it didn't happen, as far as the country's concerned, but it did happen in Boston.
So are we to learn something from this?
Yeah, I think we are, even in the midst of a disaster where you may have the country dissatisfied with the performance of I don't care whether federal government, state government, local government, federal uh uh city government, uh, and they may be appalled at what they're seeing, they still reject the uh the the the incendiary uh injection of race into this for all the uh all the obvious reasons, which takes me to a piece here on the American Thinker.
That's one of our favorite blogs, and it's by um Rick Moran.
Uh Rick Moran is the proprietor of the uh of the blog Right Wing Nut House.
Now, interestingly, too, uh Rick Moran is uh uh I'm told the brother of ABC White House correspondent Terry Moran.
So let me read to you the um headline of this piece, Dancing on the Graves of Black People.
Now you might get an idea where this is headed.
For the left, the aftermath of Katrina has proven to be a godsend.
And by the way, if I may interject here, I sent F. Lee Levin a note last night during halftime of the football game.
I said, you know, F. Lee, I I got a sneaking suspicion that the left's reaction to this is something that they've had in the works ever since 9-11.
I think the left has been waiting for the next terrorist attack.
They've got their battle plan in motion, and they knew when the terrorist attack came that they were going to jump on Bush's case as being ill-prepared, unprepared, lousy, having done nothing, make the case for bigger government, roll out all the video of all the disasters and misery and so forth and so on.
And I think I think one of the reasons they were able to gin up so fast is they've had this in the works.
They've had it in the works, and they've tried implicit, they've grown impatient when a terrorist attack didn't come and hasn't yet come.
They they sought refuge in other events that they thought they might well, let's let's try it anyway, as in forged documents, as in Cindy Sheehan, as in the 9-11 Commission, which was nothing more than attempting to redefine what happened on 9-11 and the response.
Remember, Bush came out of 9-11, gave a great speech, and the country was uh unified and and uh he galvanized his presidency.
And I think the 9-11 Commission, the whole 9-11 hearings, uh, rather, were all about trying to rewrite history.
No, Bush screwed up.
Uh the attack shouldn't have happened in the first place, because Bush screwed up.
I think they've been on this mission, and they've been trying to implement this plan with every news event that they have seen come along that might fit the mold.
None of them really have.
Then Katrina hits, and they salivate and they rub their hands together, and they say, you know what?
This is it.
And so they put the plan into motion.
And then they got an added bonus here with the pictures.
And you know, you know full well, in a terrorist attack anywhere, uh, simply by virtue of numbers, there are going to be far more middle class people hurt than, say, upper class and elites.
In this situation, the pictures, because of the population of New Orleans, the pictures could show only one thing.
That is who lives there.
And whoever lived there is who got hurt.
Whoever lived there, and whether they got out or not.
Now, the people that got out, you don't see them on TV because they got out.
But the people that didn't get out, you see them on television.
Pictures tell the story in America.
Ergo.
They got an added bonus that this disaster hit New Orleans because the pictures made the case for them.
Since race is one of the central sections of the playbook, here they come.
So they had two things rolled into one here, and and they've been waiting to implement.
Because they they were out there so fast and so organized and so the press and everybody on this uh with with the whole contention thing, Bush blew it.
Bush incompetent, Bush can't do this, Bush can't so forth and so on.
So that's what brings me to this piece here by by uh Brian, who again the proprietor of the uh right wing Nuthouse blog, dancing on the graves of black people.
For the left, the aftermath of Katrina has proven to be a godsend.
In fact, I don't think I've seen them this happy since Hugo Chavez horn swaggled Jimmy Carter into certifying his victory in a recall vote last year.
It does something about communist thugs that brings a smile to the face of an American lefty and makes their hearts go pitter patter.
But even a victory by the laughing goat couldn't possibly gladden the hearts and warm the cockles of liberals like the prospect of celebrating what?
Well, there's that drop in the president's poll numbers, and then there's uh let's see.
Oh, did I did I mention the drop in the president's poll numbers?
Yes, these are heady days for our left-wing friends.
The fact that their celebrations are taking place as a direct result of the distress, suffering, anguish, and death of maybe tens of thousands of their fellow citizens, seems not to be of much concern to our morally superior betters, the left.
In fact, it has emboldened them to advance every crackpot theory on race and class that has poisoned American politics for going on 40 years.
One could say that the left is dancing on the graves of black people, celebrating the exploitation of a political opening brought about by the incompetence of a relief effort in the largely black neighborhoods of New Orleans, except for one thing.
Most of those graves are empty at the moment.
Because the future habitants haven't even been plucked from the flood waters yet.
But why let a small detail like common decency spoil a good party for the left?
It's Marty Gros in September to big easy.
Liberals are dancing the Cajun Reel with the thousands of grinning skeletons who very soon now will start filling up the temporary mortuaries set up to receive them.
The fact that we will be denied the edifying television spectacle of watching the gruesome task of retrieving these corpses has now led charges to a cover-up, as if focusing a camera on the bloated blackened remains of our fellow citizens should be made into some kind of TV reality show.
Kind of a survivor meets the great race, high concept production.
Why the syndication possibilities are staggering.
By the way, may I make a brief observation?
9-11.
We cannot show those pictures.
Too horrible.
Too horrible to relive, folks.
We can't show those pictures.
That's too much stress and too much trauma for the families.
We can't do that.
We're going to show every damn picture we can out of New Orleans.
During 9-11 and the aftermath and the elections that followed 9-11, the left said, You can't exploit it.
How dare you exploit?
How dare you exploit 9-11 for your political gain?
Why it was a national tragedy.
Who's exploiting Hurricane Katrina for political gain?
Left.
The very people who condemn uh such actions, if you even call them exploitation after 9-11.
So the hypocrisy is uh is huge and on display for everybody.
But it is amazing.
Uh uh Mr. Moran here, and and there's a lot more to this piece, by the way, which he really rips the administration.
So don't get the wrong idea here, and I'll share parts of that with you too.
But he uh nevertheless raises a great point.
This left is happy.
They're energized, they're excited in the midst of a national disaster, where many of their own constituents were harmed and maybe killed.
The death toll is way, way, way below what projections were.
And they're going house to house, they're not finding the numbers they thought yet.
It may be good news on that score.
To some people.
Uh the lower death, you never know how the left's going to react to a lower death toll.
Uh you j you just don't get the 10,000 deaths minimum, said the mayor.
Body bags for 25,000 are being flown into the region, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
We haven't even hit 1,000 yet on the official death toll.
We got a lot of long way to go, but nevertheless, Mr. Moran has a point.
I have to go.
That's uh a little long here in the opening segment.
Sit tight.
We're coming right back.
Tim Romer, uh 9-11 Commission member to the Dan Fox Friends, uh, Fox and Friends suggested Jimmy Carter to be the uh what does he call it?
The um well, it to head up efforts, I guess the reconstruction's are to head up uh rebuilding efforts uh in New Orleans.
Jimmy Carter.
Well, look, I've told you, failure gets you high places in the uh the Democratic Party.
And uh he's he's said to be one of the greatest presidents, ex-presidents in history uh at hammering nails.
Uh Habitat for Humanity.
Let me share with you the rest of the uh piece here by uh Rick Moran that's uh at the American thinker today.
Consider the hue and cry that went up in the hours and days following September 11th about how we shouldn't be showing images of tortured souls as they jump to their deaths, or the unbearable constant replaying of the horrific scenes of destruction as the towers fell.
rationale to time was that such appalling images would breed anger and hate.
But the anger and the hate that would be bred by showing the maggoty corpses left behind by a man-made disaster are perfectly all right, as long as that anger and hate is directed at George W. Bush.
After all, from the left's perspective, if you can't use images of a rotting cadaver for the ultimate good of making Bush look bad, why bother with rotting cadavers?
It's all they have to live for, of course, the left, that and the possibility the American people become so outraged at the president's choice of Michael Brown to head up FEMA, they will rise up in the in their righteous anger and smite the Republicans a mortal blow at the polls next year.
The elevation of Horshow Impresario Brown to the lofty perch of FEMA director may have been an unconscionable and unfathomable act of stupidity on the part of the president, but so was having Ron Brown's commerce department give technology transfer waivers to American companies so the Chinese Army can improve the accuracy of their ICBMs,
thank you, President Clinton, or selling arms for hostages, Reagan, or putting price controls on crude oil, Carter, or putting wage and price controls in place when inflation was at the astronomical rate of 4.7%, Nixon, or supporting Cuban expatriates in a doom from the start effort to take back their country from Castro.
Thank you, JFK.
Point is that all presidents make mistakes.
They all make huge mistakes.
Some lead to economic distress, others actually cost lives.
At this moment, despite the left's charge that Bush is insensitive, I doubt whether the president's getting much restful sleep these past few nights.
If there's anything at all that the American people have sensed about this man on a personal level, it is a sense of a simple faith-based compassion for his fellow citizens.
Does he recognize personal responsibility in his disastrous choice of Brown as FEMA director?
Firing the incompetent fool would be a good indication one way or another, writes.
Again, I'm reading here from Rick Moran.
But giving giving Master Brown the heave hole won't satisfy the baying hounds at the president's doorstep.
The ghosts of New Orleans may indeed haunt Mr. Bush's presidency from here on out if he doesn't act soon to counter the impression that the federal government is on top isn't on top of this relief effort.
It isn't enough to promise money and support for the half million displaced people whose lives have been shattered by the storm.
This is a given in America.
It's doing what's expected.
By the way, on this Mike Brown FEMA business.
Just to tell you what I think, I I think the president ought to call the press conference.
I am not not only am I not going to fire Mike Brown, here is my Supreme Court nominee, and it is either Edith Jones or Michael Ludig.
I would they're gonna criticize him no matter what he does.
This business of trying to make moves to appease the left, when are conservatives in leadership positions going to realize this never works.
There's talk, well, you know, we need to have some, you know, maybe a judge from New Orleans or maybe a black and forget the politics of it.
Just do the right thing.
They're gonna end up ripping you no matter what you do.
You give them Mike Brown right now, you open the floodgates.
FEMA has been no great gift to humanity, even when it was, you know, Hillary Clinton's out there talking about how great FEMA was in the Clinton years.
FEMA's always been what it is, a federal bureaucracy.
You know how long it took to get to Charleston, South Carolina after Hurricane Hugo?
Quick, how long?
How long did it take FEMA to get it?
It took a month.
They didn't get in there for a month.
They didn't start doing actual hard work.
I've got this somewhere in the stack.
Let me dig it up.
FEMA was not on the case full bore for a month into Charleston, South Carolina after that after Hurricane Hugo.
You know, and and George H.W. Bush, he got all kinds of hell for Hurricane Andrew.
At any rate, uh I I just I wouldn't give them any quarter.
If if if they're trying to end his presidency, uh if I were him, I wouldn't help them out.
You know, don't give them what they want.
Mr. Moran says that what the president needs to do is unexpected.
Americans will back a president after he makes a mistake only when he admits the error in public and asks for forgiveness.
Reagan and Clinton both made monumental errors in their second terms, and they finished their terms in office with strong support, even affection from the American people because they recognized their mistakes, they apologized for them and moved on to bigger and better things.
Yeah, well, all well and good, but uh yeah, this business of apologizing, I uh uh fine and dandy, but you take a look at Monica Lewinsky today.
She's trying to get into grad school in uh in Europe someplace, and I've got a story in the stack here about how she is just one totally messed up person.
All she wants, all she wants is to get married and have a family and she's she she put on a whole bunch of weight.
She's just an absolute psychological mess.
And there's one reason for it.
Well maybe two, but she was an intern at the time stars in the eyes, delivering pizza in the uh in the Oval Office.
Quick timeout here, folks sit tight, much more to go.
Plus your phone calls coming up on open line Friday.
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Getting to your phone calls uh here in uh in just a moment.
Just to wrap this up from uh from Rick Moran clearly this is a Maya culpa moment for Bush but whether his political enemies who now have the upper hand allow him the luxury of such a course of action is problematic.
The left's continued glee at having the president on the run will last only as long as the president stubbornly refuses to make things right with the American people.
Things went horribly wrong in New Orleans and while the inexplicable gaffes of the disaster tag team of blank and Nagan will ultimately come to be seen as at least equally responsible for all this the American people want an acknowledgement of what they've seen with their own eyes and heard with their own ears the people that the president dispatched to deal with the relief efforts failed miserably.
They want the president to take ultimate responsibility for this and they want it done soon.
Any delay will be seen as playing politics and that's something the American people have no patience for right now.
Do the right thing Mr. Bush and do it now Rick Moran wrote this again the theme here is the left dancing on the graves of black people dancing at the uh and excited at the uh very pictures we see from this disaster because they think it's going to launch them uh back to electoral power uh if Mr Moran here is right that the uh American people have no patience for playing politics right now if that's true then uh democrats face
a huge backlash and are tremendously overplaying their hands.
Janet in Hampton, Virginia, we'll start with you today.
Great to have you with us.
Rush?
Yes.
Yes, this is Janet.
Listen, I think the one thing I've been so angry about...
Janet, hold it.
You must do me a favor here.
I have a little bit of a hearing problem on the phone this week for some reason.
Would you slow down what you say a little bit so I could understand?
All right.
Thanks.
I'm just so emotional about what's being ignored throughout this whole tragedy.
What's that?
African-American people are not outraged knowing that their best buddies in the world, the Democratic Party, ran a state in Louisiana for 60 years and allowed 75% black population in New York,
New Orleans to be 50 to 60 percent unemployed and these are their best buddies in the world that's gonna do everything for them and what what the horror I saw on that TV and I'm an African American was unbelievable.
These people these these this party that party because I left the plantation years ago that party was supposed to be the best buddy of the African American and I guarantee you rush not just in Louisiana there's pockets of people like that all over this country that the Democrats I bet you those buses was running on election day I guarantee you that.
I I don't doubt what you're saying at all.
In fact I you're you're echoing you're echoing many of the things that I have said all week.
I've asked questions.
I'm you know I w who lives in New Orleans is who lives in New Orleans and who runs New Orleans is who runs New Orleans and we have the uh census uh figures tell us that 70 what is it 75% of the population of New Orleans is black we uh we also are told that uh much of it is unemployed and much of it uh it that is employed is still uh poor.
We also know that it's a black mayor and there have been many black mayors.
We all know all the mayors have been Democrats.
We know the governors have been Democrats for generation after generation.
I said yesterday, it would seem to me that with liberalism having the power to run around in that state and city unchecked that we should have a utopia.
Uh instead, we've got one of the worst crime problems the country, got one of the worst uh problems of poverty, one of the worst centers for minority poverty in the country.
It's all run by Democrats.
Uh you're gonna have to tell me, because I can I can't, you're gonna have to tell me why uh the loyalty between those people and the Democratic Party survives.
I only have one theory.
And when I learned yesterday, Janet, that some of the people in New Orleans refused to evacuate because their welfare checks were coming on the first of September, and they didn't want to miss those checks.
That tells me all I need to know.
They have whatever they have, how however little it is, all comes from their government, and they can't, they couldn't leave because they feared missing their check, and then they would uh they'd be out of money.
And I think I think the the answer has to lie somewhere there.
All these years these people have been created as is essential wards of the state.
And if the way they look at it, if it weren't for their government, they'd have less than they already do.
They don't look around the rest of the country and see prosperity, even among black people around this country.
They don't see the prosperity all over the country.
They somehow miss that.
Uh and and I don't know, uh beyond what I've said, I don't understand it.
Can you tell me?
I I don't understand it either.
I was brought up and raised into projects myself.
Um we were always taught that no one owed us anything.
You your responsibility lies with yourself.
Janet, how old are you?
If you mind my asking, there's a gener how old are you?
55.
55.
You know, uh, okay, I have I have uh let me just share with you some conversations I've had with people like you.
Uh Thomas Sowell is uh is a is a good friend of mine.
Thomas Sowell grew up in Harlem.
Uh Dr. Sowell's near 70 now, but he tells the same story that you do, that when he was growing up, there was a whole different culture.
And it was a culture of be the best you can be and don't let these obstacles in your way stand in your way.
Uh and the family unit was built around the church.
Uh and and uh I've I've had I've had others uh who have uh of similar age, 55 to 60 to 70, tell me the exact same story.
Um something happened along the way here.
Some people think it's the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and LBJ and the Democrats getting credit for that.
Uh that that sort of is the new solidification of the Democrats uh and and the minority population, the black population of the country.
Then after that happened, the Democrats then set about destroying the black family by creating this massive welfare state which replaced uh the need for husbands and fathers in in the uh in black communities.
And it's been a steady descent ever since.
And yet, these things have happened over the course of time, and the victims of all this still blame people have who have had nothing to do with it.
Exactly.
Uh I I just don't understand it.
I mean, it it it's it's just it's like it's acceptable if someone walks up to you and said, I'm gonna take care of you from the cradle to the grave, and they accept it and think that's life.
That is not life.
Well, but you know it's even worse than that, Janet, because that not only was that said, I'm gonna take care of you cradle to grave, then when that turned out not to be a whole big good uh, you know, a good deal, the Democrats who were promising to take care of these people cradle to glauc cradle to grave blamed the lack of uh of uh economic progress on the Republicans.
They said, you gotta keep voting for me because those guys will take away from you whatever I've given you.
And so, all right, I'll keep voting for you to keep keep uh keep these benefits whatever coming.
But they didn't increase and they didn't they they didn't get large enough to build uh reservoirs of wealth.
They certainly didn't get people out of poverty.
They didn't, they didn't build, they didn't get people out of the dependency cycle they were in, and the Democrats continue to blame Republicans for this.
And the uh and the and the after it's it's gone on for 50 years now almost, to the point that the people who complain about their economic plight keep voting for the same people who are responsible for it because they get away with blaming others.
Uh so, you know, and I I'm afraid that it's the die is cast.
I I'm afraid that, you know, you have every now and then we get stories and calls from people like you who uh give us hope that uh maybe this is changing, but it it really doesn't seem to.
And now this business out of New Orleans, I let me share a poll here with you that I've got.
This is a a Pew poll, and it's taken after the Kanye West statement.
And they actually went out and asked American blacks, do you agree with Kanye West?
Sixty-six percent of blacks in America say they believe Kanye West was right to some degree.
And they and a vast majority believe that the response would have been faster in New Orleans if the victims were white.
Well, I don't know what we're to do with this.
Uh, this is it this is this is shocking and saddening.
It is wrong.
The initial response was to get everybody out of there by the mayor and the governor.
We now know that Max Mayfield, Max Mayfield, the the the guy who runs the hurricane center, personally, he doesn't do this much, personally called the governor and the mayor and said this is going to be get everybody out of there, and and the and the governor still dragged her feet.
Some people theorize that one of the reasons Governor Blanco did not, and even when President Bush called her on the Sunday, begging her to put the evacuation order in gear and get everybody out of there, she people are speculating that she didn't want to do that because she didn't want any credit to sending to Republicans if something went right.
She wanted to be able to hog all the credit for herself if everything went right, uh, as though she stood up to big Republicans.
He's big carry supporter, by the way, uh Catherine Catherine Blanco was.
Now that everything has gone wrong, of course, now we turn it around, we blame it on the federal government, who um they just can't walk in there.
But you know, how many people even know this?
They just can't walk in.
And if they had, if the federal government had gone in there after Catherine Blank, Kathleen Blanco, whatever if she had said, uh no, I'm not I don't think we're gonna need your help.
Look at you don't recognize what's going on here, Governor.
Uh, we're coming in there, we're taking over.
Can you imagine the hell to pay if uh if if the governor gone in an overridden, if the president going in overridden a Democrat?
Governor and state.
Uh you know, it's just it's uh it is a mess.
It's become a cesspool.
Mr. Snerdley, what's your question?
What were you um what were you going to say?
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
Well, what is the Mr. Snurdley says there's a logical explanation for the 66% of blacks believing Kanye West.
Well, I'll check your logical explanation after the break.
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Somebody help me out.
What year was Hurricane Hugo?
At any rate, so somebody find out what your Hurricane Hugo was.
Here's here's a uh a little bit of a uh a story.
This is from the uh Charleston, South Carolina Post and Courier.
Headline, FEMA again plays the villain uh to uh some across low country.
Uh hard feelings toward agencies stirred up as residents watch familiar response.
Hurricane Katrina is leaving one more big black blotch on the reputation of FEMA, villapied in the low country since Hurricane Hugo, and frustrating residents as recently as Hurricane Gaston last year.
The uh the no the nation's watched in horror as New Orleans has descended into lawlessness and despair in the wake of Katrina.
By most accounts, armed looters now roam the streets.
Tens of thousands of thirsty and tired refugees wait in filthy conditions for transportation out.
Katrina is worse than what Charleston saw after Hugo, where FEMA's response also trailed local efforts.
Critics say that FEMA response for the new storm is just as slow as it was for Gaston last year.
Local residents and officials watch it with reactions that range from disappointment to disgust.
U.S. Senator Fritz Hollings now retired, used his political muscle to move military support instead behind uh uh mayor, Charleston mayor Joe Riley's Hugo in 1989.
again, to me it's a reminder our country can do much better, uh said Mayor Joe Riley, who led Charleston's response to Hugo in uh in 1989.
Uh after Hugo devastated the counties around Charleston, local officials pleaded for emergency help, were told by agency officials, strapped for money and personnel to apply through the governor.
Fritz Hollings used his political muscle to move military support instead behind the uh the mayor's efforts.
Uh so the the whole point of this is is that Mrs. Clinton's out there trying to say that FEMA under her uh husband's administration or anybody else's was this smooth-running, well-running, well-oiled machine, and it never has been.
It is.
It's a federal bureaucracy.
And and the to the extent that red tape is the problem here, and that's the large extent, it's because the bureaucracies are way too big.
But don't fall for this notion that uh that that FEMA has always acted first, they're not a first responder anyway, but the idea that FEMA has been a well-oiled machine up until Mike Brown and George Bush got hold of it.
And don't forget, don't forget that it was the Democrats who wanted FEMA to be part of homeland security in the first place.
It's Democrats that wanted to build a new bureaucracy and move FEMA into it.
Uh after uh after 9-11 happened.
So they're, you know, they're they're they're they're getting away here with rewriting history uh because their allies of the mainstream press are simply an echo chamber uh for for what they are for what they are saying.
So it's it's uh it's uh there's so many misconceptions and so many lies actually are being passed off as truth.
Linda in Selena, Alabama.
I'm glad you called.
Welcome to the program.
Hello.
Yeah, hi, Linda.
We're gonna have real phone problems here, folks.
You'll have to pardon the uh plastic.
That's all right, we have problems there too.
How are you, Linda?
Uh well, we're doing fine, Rush.
We're we're independent truckers, and we're down here in Selena, Alabama with a load of water for the flood victims.
It's a FEMA load.
And we have been jerked around since last night.
We were first in Meridian Naval Air Station and sat there all night until about 5 30 this morning.
We finally got through the gate.
And they sent us from there over to Selena, Alabama.
Now wait, wait, wait, wait just a second.
You're using they.
You say it's a FEMA load.
So FEMA has as has given you the water, but who is it that's uh that's making you play uh jigsaw puzzle here?
It's FEMA.
That's who we report to at the uh uh Meridian Naval Air Station.
That's who was running the show there.
And they are here in Salena, Alabama.
And you have never seen such a disaster in your life, a bureaucratic nightmare.
There's probably 400, maybe more trucks sitting here loaded and nowhere to go.
It sounds like the fiasco we've heard.
The mayor put out a call for uh all these firemen from around the country.
And so the fireman's, oh, yeah, who matter we'll we'll we'll heed the call, answer the call.
They go down there and they find out they're gonna use firemen to pass out pamphlets telling people where to go to get what.
And so the uh many of the firemen said, I didn't think they come down here to pass out pamphlets.
So, hey, folks, this is this bureaucracy on parade.
Here you go.
Bim ma'am, thank you, ma'am.
Uh and you know, the big government crowds out there saying we need an even bigger government to make this more efficient.
You can probably just in these eyewitness accounts pick up the problem yourself.
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You may have heard the Democratic congressional leaders have uh said, no, we're gonna we're not gonna participate in this uh in this investigation at Bill Frist and uh Haster are talking about.
Uh Pelosi and I think Reeves, we're we're not gonna put it you can't make us, we're not gonna participate.
They were calling for it first.
Now, why do you suppose that they're gonna not participate in the investigation?
They demanded it.
You know, this is and nobody, I can't, I've I've waited patiently, nobody speculating in the media what this is all about.
Media just going right along with all the Republicans are just a bunch of phonies and they're trying to set up a scam investigator.
We're not gonna participate.
That's not what this is about.
The Democrats have suddenly realized uh oh, we in big trouble if there's an honest investigation, what this thing's gonna show up about a bunch of Democrats in Louisiana and about a particular Democrat senator from Louisiana, and they want no part of that, folks.
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